Working Day Statement: New Orleans

A few things we don’t want to do: we don’t want to be redundant, meaning we don’t want to start a service or project that already exists locally. Even… More

Blue on Blue

A week in Washington.The American soldiers killed in Iraq will one day have a memorial on the Mall in Washington DC like the soldiers killed in the Vietnam War.… More

We, The Drowned

The BootsMany years ago there lived a man called Laurids Madsen, who went up to Heaven and came down again, thanks to his boots.He didn’t soar as high as… More

Ice

12Dear Mama,Last Saturday there was a dance in the canteen. Those prisoners who knew how to play an instrument brought them along and played something for us. I was… More

Eléctrico W

Antonio and I had never worked together but we had come across each other several times. His photos had illustrated my investigation into the garimpeiros, destitute gold miners in… More

A Shortcut to Paradise

After his wife had left to take the children to school, Ernest Fabià sat down in his pyjamas at the formica kitchen table where they had eaten breakfast and… More

The Last Patriarch

The son’s daughterI was born on cue, although some say I came too early, timing that destroyed the family and provoked one of those upsets that pursues you throughout… More

Bluebeard in Latex

"It's the damndest caseof Bluebeard Syndrome I’ve ever seen.”Detective Spellacy lit a cigarette and stared at the police psychologist for a beat through an acrid haze of blue smoke.… More

Untitled

You would not believe the ache of my lungs the way my head swims in cotton candy twirls. Doll After doll But what is a man to do when every face, when it greets me, when… More